Steven A. Melnick ⁽⁷⁰⁾

"You cannot do kindness too soon, as you never know how soon it will be too late." ...Ralph Waldo Emerson Traveling provides the opportunity to see new sights, meet new people, and experience different cultures and languages. By far, meeting new people from all over…

Right now, I am spending the month of February in Tamarindo, Costa Rica -- mostly to get away from winter but also to complete the required SCUBA dives for my PADI Advanced Open Water certification. I have completed six dives over three days at Playas…

Only 90 miles from our shores, Cuba might as well be half a world away. It is a beautiful island known for its fine cigars, rum, and coffee. I have sampled two of the three. I went on a three hour walking tour of Old…

Our Little Cottage at Hotel Gardenia We've spent the past three winters in Florida (north-central) and found the local people and travelers we met along the way to be wonderful, kind, caring folks. We will miss them immensely. However, the itch to travel more was…

I debated about writing this but decided to post it so I don't have to tell the story multiple times to each of the people I know... First, the Good News ... My sister-in-law, Pat, came to visit us from Michigan while we are in Northern…